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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

The FRENCH MATHEWS DIFFICULTY
The GAZETTE yesterday referred to the oil
ficulty existing between Messrs. VIM. A
French and VIM. 8. Mathews, ofPearisburg
Giles county. The following account OF the
affair is from the Lynchburg Advance
Mr.. Mathews, in hs paper, the Girginsan'
charged French with taking one bali OF
poor widows pension, receiving SlOO for us \,
Ing his influence in foisting change OF
school books in the public schools upon the
people, and also with having acts passed
while in the legislature for the benefit OF GER
tain private individuals. Ga election day
French had cards posted denouncing the
charges referred to as "false and malicious"
and Mathews as "a liar and scoundrei." "
On the next day Mathews wrote to French
and asked him if he was responsible, and
French replied that he was. Mathews then
got affidavits in support Of the charges he
made, and sent them to French with note
demanding the retrsction of the card post
ed. French refused to retract, when Math-
ews Immediately sent him challenge to
fight at sunrise the next morning. Both
parties were then arrested and put under
bond of ST. 900 each. Much excitement ex'
ists throughout the county, IS both parties
are popular and Influential.
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Escape of COnyicts.

CHESTER, ILL.,, Nov. 25.-Just as the train
reached the depot in this city last night
Charles Gather and Charles Wyatt, Two
colored convicts bound for the penitentiary,
eluded the vigilance of their guard, and
leaping from the platform Of the car escaped
ir the darkness Although handcufied to
gether, they made the break successfully
and have so far evaded capture. Both had
been convicted of highway robbery and sen
fenced TO sir years Imprisonment. They
came from Morgan county and were in
charge, with six others, of The chief police
of Jacksonville and two deputy sheriff..
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.-At an interview
with NJ. Ribot yesterday, President Grevy
requested him to convey his message OF re
signation to the cabinet. M. Ribot said as
it was political act the president ought to
confer with the retiring minister AZ sec
ond interview NJ. Ribot advised the presi.
dent to continue the Rouvier ministry until
ne had resigned and was assured by NJ.
Grevy that he will send his mtsaage, accom-.
Ia1ying his resignation, to the chamber to-
day. 1t ia asserted, however, that President
G.evy insists upon having knowledge ct
the composition of the new cabinet to te
formed aud desires guarantee from them
that the conservative policy OF the republic,
will bs continued The radical journals
strongly oppose the election of General
Saussier or any other military candidate 10
the presidency The Ribot cabinet will
probably include NJ FloureDs, M. Waldeck-
Il IL :seau, NJ Sadi Carnot andiGeneral Fer
ron. The extremists radicals are trying to
prepare charter of treason against NJ.
Grevy for his action toward the government
of Peru and the French tribunals 10 the
Dreyfus guano aiisir.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

KNIGHTS TEMpLAR.-The sixty fifth an
nual conclave of the Grand Commaudery,
Knights Templar, Of Virginia was held a.
Petersburg yesterday. The following Of
ficers were elected for the ensuing year
Right Eminent Sir James Braxton Blanks OF
Petersburg, grand commander; Very Emf
uent Sir James Lee Beck. Lynchburg. dep
uty grand commander; Very Eminent Sir
Thomas jefferson Evans, Richmond, grand
seperalsSimo Very Eminent Sir Isaac S.
Tower, Richuond, grand captain general !;
Eminent Sir George ". Dame. d. d, Dan
Vile, grand presio; Eminent Sir DAME! j.
Turner, jr., Portsmouth, grand senior war.
den Eminent Fir james l. Avis Harrison
burg, grand junior warden Eminent Cir
WIN. T. Allen, Richmond, grand treasurer !;
Right Eminent Sir VIM. lsaacs, Rich
mond, grand recorder; Eminent Sir Fred.
Greenwood, Norfolk, grand standard bear
or; Eminent Sir Emanue f. Downhan,
Alexandra. grand sword bearer; Eminent
Sir James P. Corbin, Fredericksburg, grand
warder At night handsome banqnet
was given the Commandery.
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NEWS OF TEaq: DAY.

Ya,e defeated Harvard in the football
match at New York yesterday, winning the
Intercollegiate championship.
The monument to Tille Smith, who died
in defending her honor. was unveiled at
Hackct,stown, n. j., yesterday.
The switchmen's strike which began sew.
cral days ago in the Southern Pacific yards
at Houston, Tex. IS virtually at an end.
The sons OF rich men in Cuba continue TO
be carried Of and held for ransom. a son
of Gervasio Armas has been kidnapped near
Matanzas.
In the presence Of fully 10000 witnesses
Alphonso King yesterday made good his
boast that he could cross the stream from
Charles river bridge from the East Boston
side on marine bicycle.
The great trottiug match between Rosa
lind Wiikcs and kenilworth over Fleetwood
track New York, took place yesterday, aud
was won by Rcsaiind Wilkes in straight
heats In , 2l4, > 2ii, DO.
A piece of gas Pipe about two inches in
diameter and fifteen inches in length, plug
ged at both ends, with piece of gun cotton
protruding, was found yesterday in jersey
City. 1t is believed to be hoax.
LUG government OI NEW Ooulu w hlo5 Ud5
offered reward of $4,000 to American
inventors for successful method of exter
minatipg rabbits. which have become q
destroying nuisance in that country.
Peter Monaghan and John Brennan were
arrested in Chicago yesterday while they
were carrying eff large parlor stove with
a hot fire in it and smoke coming through a
section of pipe attached, which they had
stolen.
In Philadelphia indications point to an
improvement in the available supply OF an
thracte coal, and predictions are made that
next month will see such an abundance OF
stock on hand at all the tidewater shipping
points that fears of a famine will have been
dispelled.
The United Synod of the Evangelical Lu
theran Church in the South began lis bien.
NAL convention in Savannah, Ca, yester-
day. The body ia composed of delegates
from the Synods Of Virginia, West Virginia,
Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Mississippi, and represents
forty thousand commandments of the Lnth.
eran Church.
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ara claimed by Mr. Donaldson as his sup
Dorters. General Lee, it is understood. oaa
expressed no preterel &c.
Quite large delegation of A!exaadrians
were at The Treasury Department to day TO
urge the appointment of Mr.. Frank Price,
of Alexaudria, to tho position OF assistant
engineer of the heating room of the Ireasu
nv Department, now secant. 1t bad been
pretty we'll determined before they reached
there tina. Mr.. William Moore, of Alexan
dria, the engineer of one oft steamers on
the ferry line between this city and Alex
andris, would he appointed to the place.
Whether they succeeded In changing tnae
determination is not known.
Representative Wise, OF the Richmond
District, is in the city to day. He says that
ell or nearly all the democrats who lett tne
democratic, to Join the labor party, 10 MS
district, have returDed to their old fold ana
are likely to stay there.
The Light House Board has granted hir
Aleck Hunter, formerly of Alexandra, the
use of the abandoned Femplico light house
fifty miles South of Currituck, for shooting
club to be organized BY. Mr.. Hunter. Al
sorts wild fowl are said to be aoundan
there.
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

]. ". A!ieon, carpenter, at New Bsltl.
more Fauauier. had his Enger bitten in
fight With enc Of his employees recentlS,
and was compelled to have it smpntased
Ny. Frederick Bradley. OF Washington,
has purchased meadow Faru," near
auckland, Prince William county, ard is
rul.inc up a handsome residence on the
same.
The new STEEL ligbship just built for
Cape Charles, now lying at the United
States buoy. yard in Portsmouth, is leaking
and will have 10 be placed 10 the dry dock
for repairs.
Mr.. J. Byers, who lives near Oronoco, in
Amherst county, one night last week caught
two bears in traps. They we're very large
ar d fat Bears arc reported to be mure nu-
merous in the mountains ofthat section than
for several years past.
The democratic organizations Of the Nor
fox section are pushing Col. l.. d Starke,
Of that city. for next Speaker OF the House
OF Delegates, and with great unsnimity en-
dorse Mr.. Barbour as the successor of Rid
dleberger in the U. 8. Senate.
Quiet reigns at Pocahontas coal mines. Of
the twenty four whites who were arrested
fifteen have been bniled for appearance. and
nine remen 10 Jail. Farther trouble is
not new anticipated, but the local feeling
against the foreign miners may show up at
any time.
It is said in Richmond that the old base
ment officers will be reelected with the e1-
ception of the superintendent of grounds
ard buildings. Superintendent of Printing
Micou will have walkover. Representa-
tive Cardwell, of Hanover, will probably be
Speaker of the House.
Three Mormon elders are on proselyt
ing expedition in the mountain sections OF
Roanoke county, and preach nightly to the
! ignorant people, who know little Ct their
mission. They claim to he homogeneous,
and have met With some success, having bap
liz4d a female convert Tuesday.
% Tuesday the eldest daughter of Gen.
II. digger, Of Warren. was married to Lieut..
Hubert Lamey, Ct the Prussan army. Miss
digger was educated in Heideburg, and is
said to be ora of The prettest and most &C
compished young ladies of Warren county.
Lieut. Lsmey sreported to be quite wealthy,
and young gentleman of varied ac'
oomplistmsnts.
A series OF rainy days. occurring about
the middle of October, and again in the lat
Ter part of the month, and since, coming as
It did just in the height of the digging and
curing period of the peanut harvest, has
wrought serious and irreparable damage 10
that crop, and entailed loss of hundreds
and thousands Of dollars on the peanut
growers of Virginia.
DR.. John L. Buchanan, Superintendent. o.
Public Instruction, with his two assistants
has been busily engaged tor several weeks
securing data from which TO frame his annu.
al report, soon now to be issued. All the
reports that have been received have been
examined and tabuleted with the exception
of few that have but recently como to
hand They show that the system of the
gtate throughout is in very healthy and
prosperous condition. For the coming ses-
sion, with the continuance of the present
rate of taxation, the school funds will be
something leFs than for the past two years.
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anoholy discovery is reported from Maine.
Some tourists hunting in forest in that
State were Mortified to como upon dead
man whose flesh was almost entirely strip
ped from his bones, the skeleton fingers
held firmly 10 the jaws of great bear trap.
Various articles found near the body lead 10
the belief that the body is that of q French
man who used to reside near Moosehead
Lake, but who suddenly disappeared. He
had evidently been trying to force his way
through the underground when his hands
had been caught in the trap, and, being uu
able to remove them. and no assistance be.
ing near, he had died from starvation.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25
A Welcome Rain.

PITTsBURG. NV. Pa steady rain al
day yesterday gaddentd the hearts OF tho
coal operators and miners along the MOnon-
gahela river and gave renewed hopes OF o
rse in the rivers sufficient TO allow the ship
ment 10 the West of the eight or ten million
bushels Ct coal lying 10 The harbor ard poole.
There have been no shipments to the lower
porls eince last June, and the mines have
been closed on account of scarcity ofcraft,
all the beats being loaded. The enforced
idleness has caused great suffering among
the 1000 miners in the valley, and large
numbers have gone TO O. her fields in quest
of employment.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

TOBACCO FAIR-The first tobacco fair
ever held in this part Of the country opened
in Dauvilie yesterday with big trades pa.
rade. After the procession had disbanded,
the people were addressed at the Academy
of Music by the Hon. r. B. Davis, and then
proceeded to the two immense exposition
buildings where there is fine trades dis.
play and q magnificent exhibit of bright to-
bacco. No such display of tobacco has ever
been seen 10 this State and the fair is a great
success. Prominent TOBACCO men are in
Danvlle from all paris of the country and
are delighted with Il Q e2h bilion. The
city last night was illuminated with fire.
works and thronged with visitors.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25
Collisions.

CINCINNATI, Nov. pa Lima, Ohio,
special reports a collision at Anna, Ohio,
on The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton rail
road between two freight trains. Fifteen
cars were smashed and an engineer and
fireman are reported killed.
PIrTsBURG. Nov. 25. - By collision to day
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad between
two freight trains, three men were killed and
fvs others injured The collision occurred
about fifteen miles south Of this city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexs. GA

Especial Correspondence of tho Alexs. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Nov. 25. 1887.
The President now talks about the proba-
BILE necessity for his being candidate for
re- election, but says retirement and rest
from public service would be more agree
able. His efforts during the next Con-
gress will, it is now said, bs directed
more toward securing the unity of his party
than the passage of reform bills, as he
deems democratic ascendency of more
Importance than any one or two democratic
measures that might or might not DO adopt
ed, and that therefore tariff reform will b,
TO him secondary consideration to demo
cratic harmony.
Among the strangers in the city to day Is
MIR. W. W. Gordon of Richmond, one of the
council in the Virginia habeas corpus cases
now before the U. S. Supreme Court, and also
in the Clarke county bond cases now in the
courts OF Virginia. A decision in the
former cases is expected next Mon
day, and that that decision will not be in
favor of the bondholders. by divided court,
is probable from the fact that it wss not an
nounced last Monday, as decisions of such a
character are not rendered by opinions, but
by simple announcements, which require no
time for preparation.
Senator Cockrill of Missouri, in short
talk with the GAzETTE's correspondent to.
day, said sectional feeling was much strong
er in the North than in the South. and for
that reason he thought it would be unwise
and impolitic for the democrats of the
South to demand of the next national demo.
cratic convention lbe nomination of
Southern nan for Vice. President.
The chief talk at the Capitol this morning
was about the election of the doorkeeper Of
the next House, and the charges against the
incumbent, Mr.. Donaldson, that Represent.
alive Breckenridge threatens to present to
the democratic caucus, and in case that
does not prevent his election, to present them
70 the House after election. The door keep.
er has more patronage at his disposal than
all the other officers of the House combined;
consequently more people are interested in
theelection of that officer. OF the Virginia
representatives Messrs. Wise and O'Ferrall
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

AND so. after all, as stated in the news
columns of yesterdays GAZETTE, the State
at the recent election not only elected q
large democratic majority to the legislature,
but gave democratic majority OF the popu-
lar vote. But il should not be forgotten
that there was a great deal of republican
dissatisfaction with Mahoneism at the cleo
ton referred to, that that dissatisfaction
may be dissipateG by the nomination of q
satisfactory republican Presidential candi
date, such an one for instance IS Mr.. Blaine,
and that the democratic majority is by no
means large enough to warrant any more
attempts TO make either the Virginia or the
national democracy adopt undemocratic
principles or policy.
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@SygSsgs 6
To.DAY's TELEGRAPHrC NEWS.
EYplOSiOn-Ffre.

WHEELING, w Va, Nov % Yesterday
q heated journal caused On explosion o dust
in the large Touring mill of T. Aut & Son,
at Belare, Ohio, and the mill was nearly
destroyed with all the machinery, grain
apd -four loss SIS 600; partly insured
Last evening an incendiars fire. the fifth
In week, broke out there in Ross's livery
stable. The horses were saved. The fire
department labored under great diaadvan.
tage, lis hose having recently been cut
while at fire. The Disciples Chu'ca, c. &
P, depot and B. & o., round house were
fired during the pact week, and panic has
beer created by the activity Of the incendi
aries
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part ii TO them from the stump.

The KENTUCKY Court of Appeals asjust
sent down decision that should, if men
were wise, do more TO prevent drunkenness
than all the prohibition laws that could be
printed. 1t is TO the effect that the laws OF
Kentucky make drunkenness an otfense,
and that one crime does not privilege an
other. The decision of the low er court. from
which an appeal had been taken on the
ground that the murder, for which the appel
liant had been sentenced to death, was com
mitted while he was drunk, was therefore
affirmed, and the murderer will be hanged,
ss he should be. It is the man who com
mite an cffsnse while diunk who should be
punished, not the man who makes or se!s
all article that has been OF common con
sumption since the world began, and will bs
until the end thereof, and the use Of which
Was openly countenanced by the founder
of the Christian religion.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

IT WILL be pleasing to the bondholdsrs of
Clarke county to know that as soon as Com
missioner Armstrong is ready with his re-
port. now expected i'll o few days, they
will be paid the amount of their coupons,
with accumulated interest, by the late pur-
chasers of the Washington aud Ohio R. R. u,
the court of last resort having decided that
the said road secured the same by first
mortgage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

TIE RICHMOND Dispatch in the prepare
tion of its table of the returns of the recent
State election got the figures for Henrico
county reversed mixing that county cast
1880 democratic, inttsad OF republican votes.
The State, however, went democratic. but
by majority small enough to stimulate
every staunch and t-ua democrat In it
to exert himself to the utmost next
November, if Virginia shall be retained 10
the democratic CD mn.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25
Mosf,s TrinI.

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.-The trial of Herr
Most was resumed this morning. Mr..
Howe iu opening the case for the defense
said that Most was motor trial, but freedom of
speech. He did not believe in Mosts doc.
trines but the law gives him the right to
denounce it's execution as an outrage.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25
Plot to Escape.

MADRID, Nov. 25-Further Information
in regard to tbs plot of the military convicts
on the Island of Gomera, Africa, to escape
shows that the convicts had attempted to
seize the mail steamer, but were frustrated.
1t was their intention, if they had succeeded
in capturing the steamer to proceed to the
other depots and release the prisoners and
I sn take refuge in Oran. Two soldiers Of
.ae station assisted the plotters.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25
AT,Ex ANDRIA-.
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER %.

NOTHING Is mere apparent TO Wen
informed Americans who talk with many OF
,hsir fellow citizens on the subject, than the
fact OF the utter ignorance prevailing among
the great majority of the latter respecting
the tariff. Few ofthem seem even to know
that American manufacturers add to the
price of their manufactures the amount OF
the duty imposed by the tariff on similar
manufactures made abroad, and that, too'
though the special privilege granted Ameri'
can manufacturers to add to the price oil
their products an amount equal to the duty
collected on imports of simlar.character'
ia the sole and avowed object of protective
tariff All that the average American voter
requires to make him low tariff man, Is
that he be we'll and correctly Informed on
tie subject of the tariff, and rs great many
Of them 90 not have opportunities to read
those newspapers that will give them such 10
formation, democratic speakers should i'm
part it to them from the stump
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Probably Robbed and Murdered,

ROMEO, Mich, Nov. 25.-L. K. Shaw, a
farmer living four miles southwest of
Romeo, Macomb county, this Slate, came 10
this place on Wednesday and received 5000
for wheat he had marketed. Not returning
home that night search was made for him,
and his body was found yesterday in a
piece of woods about miles from Romeo in
direction different from that to his home.
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Dead

LAWRENCE, Kan, Nov. 25.-Mrs. Salt,
the German woman who FOR the past four
weeks has refused to eat, died last evening
at o'clock. All efforts to induce her to
take food proved unsuccessful. When any,
one spoke to her she would answer in quo
tations from the Bible.
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Eacfs worth Knowing.

In all diseases of the nasal mucous membrane
the remedy used must be non irritating The
medical profession has been slow to learn this.
Nothing satisfactory can be ompished with
douches sntfs, powders, syringes, astringents. or
any similar application, because they are all irri-
tating. do not thoroughly reach the affected sur
faces and should be abandoned SIS worse than fail
ures. multitude Of persons who have for years
borne ali the worry and pain that catarrh can in
fct testi to radical and permanent cures
wrought by Ey's Cream Balm.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-25

Mr.. Robert sutciiffe. native of Birning
ham, England, now resident of Baltimore.
claims: I'm subject to severe attacks of
neuralgia which have caused me much pain;
have repeatedly tried d Gsreni remedies
but received no benefit. tua.iy Tried Saliva
ton Oil and received Immediate relief
consider it worth its weight in gold.
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ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Mrs WINDOWS SOOTHING SYRUP, for chill.
dren teething, is the prescription of one of the
best female nurses and physicians in the United
Statea, and has been used for forty years with
aeyer-failing success by milions of mothers for
their children. During tho process of teethng
its value is incalculable 1t relieves the child
from pain, cures dysentery and diarrhea, gripping
in tho bowels, and wind colic By giving health
to the child II :csts the mother. Price 25 cents
hatt,a, ny6-1y1M W&S
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"A wet sheet aud flowing sean is what
some men prescribe for cold This is
terrible, and oftentimes fata! mistake. Give
The patient few doses of DR.. Bulls re.
markabe, astonishing, woodworking
Couch Svrup.
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Gu1feu hY Fire.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov, 25.-The piano stool
mandatory of Philip Reiz, 929 Tyler street.
was completely Quilted by fire at o'clock
this morning, causing loss on stock and
machinery Of 81 800, on which there is an
insurance of $780, The building belonged
to George Fell and was damaged to the ex-
tent of 81 800; insurance not ascertained.